fellow sentimental gals, how do you keep your emotions/anxiety/paranoia from clouding your intelligence and be productive?

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1. Practicing the pause, mindfulness by reconnecting myself into the present moment, journaling, and asking myself if it will matters to me later on or is it just the dark fantasy in my mind.

2. By focusing on what I’m doing

3. Looooots of deep calming breaths… Diverting my attention elsewhere, etc..

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5. Stoicism helps as a framework if you need one. I process my feelings and separate the practical takeaways. But I can tell you I’m often accused of being too rational – some reason people wanna know how you feel, and ime it’s to tell me why it’s wrong/irrelevant anyway soooo I try not to share the emotions with anyone in the situation unless it’s absolutely critical.

6. I push them all down.

7. I married a very pragmatic man 😂

8. Therapy, and skills learned therein.

9. remembering that my emotions help me make decisions, but they are not the decision maker. i try to put the head and heart together